Author : Aline Steinbrecher,Clemens Wischermann,Philip Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1350054062
Animal History in the Modern City by Aline Steinbrecher,Clemens Wischermann,Philip Howell Pdf
"Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing